W. S. Jeffery Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Jeffery Farmstead is a historic estate with a farm house, a barn and several outbuildings in Benedict, Nebraska. The farm was established in 1878, and the barn was built in 1879-1880, followed by a farm house designed in the Queen Anne architectural style, built in 1900-1902.”
Wikipedia article W.S. Jeffery Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Jeffery, W. S., Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of Benedict, Benedict, 68316
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. building
Precinct. Morton precinct
National Register reference number. 82003208 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of W. S. Jeffery Farmstead between 2006 and 2014, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 November 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 October 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 January 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in York County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benedict, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Benedict	1 hurt	A small tornado touched down near Benedict, overturned a mobile home, damaged a grain bin and caused one injury.
August 2018	Hail	Benedict	$250,000	no account filed
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Benedict	$250,000	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Benedict	$100,000	no account filed
June 2021	Hail	Benedict	$50,000	Hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size was reported along and near this path.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	$50,000	An area pivot was overturned.
July 2014	Hail	Benedict	$35,000	Hail, starting in and near Benedict and continued to approximately 5 miles southeast of town, ranged in size from peas to golf balls.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Benedict	$35,000	A tornado set down east of Benedict and power poles were snapped and a machine shed was severely damaged.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	$25,000	Wind gusts were estimated between 60 and 70 MPH. Numerous tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2008	Hail	Benedict	$25,000	Hail to the size of golfballs reported causing considerable crop damage. Strong winds flipped a small hog building into the trees.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	$25,000	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	$2,000	Two 6 inch tree limbs were broken by wind gusts estimated between 50 and 60 MPH.
April 2025	Hail	Benedict	-	Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported along this path.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north-northeast of Benedict.
August 2017	Heavy Rain	Benedict	-	A 24-hour precipitation amount of 3.94 inches was recorded 4 miles west of Benedict.
June 2015	Hail	Benedict	-	A public report of one inch diameter hail was reported 5 miles southwest of Benedict, and also 5 miles north-northwest of York from a trained spotter.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Benedict	-	A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.24...most of which fell on the evening of the 10th. Also within York County, 3.12 was reported six miles northeast of Waco.
April 2013	Hail	Benedict	-	Dime to nickel size hail fell for five minutes. Report from Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	Large trees in town were blown down. Some crop damage was reported.
May 2016	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Benedict	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Benedict	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in York County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.